Japan announced that it will resume commercial whaling by withdrawing from an international organization set up under a treaty signed in the U.S. capital 72 years ago.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan will leave the International Whaling Commission, which will drop to 88 member nations, and take up whaling again in April.
Sustainable Development Goals — Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 1975 — Greenpeace International — Group of 20 (G-20) — Humane Society International (HSI) — International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 1948 — International Court of Justice (ICJ) — International Whaling Commission (IWC) — Paris Agreement 2015 — United Nations (U.N.) — World Trade Organization (WTO) — Asia-Pacific — Japan — United States (U.S.) — United Kingdom (U.K.) — Iceland — Norway — Australia — New Zealand
